Lou Ann Barton (born February 17, 1954, Fort Worth,
Texas, United States) is an American blues singer based, out of Austin,
Texas since the 1970s.

Biography

In the early 1970s, she was a member of the Triple Threat Revue, with W.
C. Clark and Stevie Ray Vaughan. She was a founding member of Vaughan's band
Double Trouble, and did a stint with the jump blues band Roomful of Blues.
During that time, in 1975, she joined up with W. C.
Clark to form his W. C.
Clark Blues Revue.

She recorded the album Old Enough for Asylum Records in 1982, a
well-received recording that was co-produced by Jerry Wexler and Glenn Frey.
Despite positive reviews, Old Enough did not sell well, and her tenure with
Asylum Records was a short one. Barton recorded Forbidden Tones, a
pop-oriented EP for Spindletop Records in 1986 that also failed to find a
wide audience. Her next release was the 1989 album Read My Lips for the
Austin-based Antone's Records, a return to her blues roots that featured
versions of songs made famous by Slim Harpo, Hank Ballard and Wanda Jackson,
among others. Barton later collaborated with singers Marcia Ball and Angela
Strehli on the release Dreams Come True (1990).